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Sounds like the signal to hundreds of millions of Windows users to turn off automatic updates.

• lreeves 15y ago
  What? Why? What would their motivation be for clinging to IE6 or 7? I can see large corporations with awful, unsupported "enterprise" applications that only work with a specific browser not upgrading but end-users shouldn't care at this point.
  • code_duck 15y ago
    Many of them think they care, and believe they have some reason to not upgrade. When you're running IE 6 or 7 MS frequently directs you to a 'time to upgrade, here's IE 8/9' page so they've been reminded plenty already. The reasons I've heard from users include that they: - fear it will make their computer unstable - believe their hardware can't handle it - are comfortable with IE 6/7 and fear change - don't understand the extent to which the newer versions are faster/more secure/more capable - 'son/daughter/hubby/wife/computer tech told me not to change anything'
    • Florin_Andrei 15y ago
      > 'son/daughter/hubby/wife/computer tech told me not to change anything' It's a lot better when they do follow that advice, than when they don't.
      • code_duck 15y ago
        Sometimes the person dispensing the advice isn't right. I've heard this from people who were running IE 7, after all. Using IE 7 is a big enough problem in itself.
  • omegaworks 15y ago
    Unfortunately, it doesn't take using a large enterprise application to get locked in to a specific browser. Even something as innocuous as Intuit QuickBooks relies on version-specific browser code for some of its features to work properly. The small business I was briefly working at maintained its entire financial history in this proprietary application. :(